Tablet based shopping is growing in numbers and in transaction size, but smartphones are catching up. According to Bizrate Insights Q1 2016 data that has been recently released, mobile commerce sales being transacted over iPhones have now caught up to the lead which has previously been held by iPads. The larger screen tablet devices had previously been seen as m-commerce drivers but their sales share has declined. It is not that tablet shopping is drooping. In fact, it is continuing a healthy growth rate, particularly over iPads. However, iPhones have…
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Amazon mobile commerce enjoys explosive rate
The massive online marketplace has reported that on Cyber Monday, shoppers purchased 426 items per second. As the holiday season heads toward a close, the Amazon mobile commerce numbers have now been released and have indicated that online shoppers purchased an average of 426 items per second and the majority of them were made from smartphones and tablets. This statistic was a part of the data that was released by the company for its holiday season. Many of the Amazon mobile commerce figures that were released by the online marketplace…
Read MoreMobile commerce is now an important part of Pizza Hut’s revenue
The pizza chain first launched its app in 2009 and now considers it a central element to its earnings. Pizza Hut has always been a technology friendly company, after having been one of the first companies to offer online purchasing and having had a mobile commerce app available for a number of years. This company boasted one of the first online purchases, when it made this option available in 1994. From that point, Pizza Hut has continued to look to technology to help consumers to be able to order their…
Read MoreMobile commerce sales this year should nearly achieve $42 billion
eMarketer has released a report predicting that the transactions in the United States alone will be considerable. Research firm, eMarketer, has released a mobile commerce report that has indicated that transactions through smartphones and tablets across the United States will reach $41.68 billion by the close of 2013. If the firm is correct in its projection, it would mean that there would be an increase of 68.2 percent over 2012. The total that was reached last year was an estimated $28.78 billion. The total online retail sales in the United…
Read MoreMobile commerce predicted to reach $25 billion in 2013
The boom of smartphone and tablet based shopping is here and it is predicted to sail this year. In the first half of 2013, comScore recorded mobile commerce sales as having reached $10 billion in the United States, alone, and that firm’s latest survey data is now suggesting that by the end of this year, that figure could rise to exceed $25 billion. Last year by the halfway point, the sales over smartphones and tablets had been at $8.3 billion. For the entire year of 2012, mobile commerce brought in…
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